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...York's public service commission last week ordered Consolidated Edison Co. to reduce charges on all-electric homes by anywhere from $50 to $70 a year. The ruling climaxed a year-long rate protest led by Mrs. Christina Jackson of Hartsdale, N.Y. Aghast at the steady rise in her Con Ed bills-they have risen from $56 a month in 1969 to $252, even though she has cut back power consumption sharply-Mrs. Jackson recruited some 4,000 equally pained suburbanites into an active lobby. She cheered last week's decision as "a victory for the small...
Last Monday's action by the Corporation broke the year-long deadlock in student payments between the two schools. Next year, Harvard undergraduates and graduate students will pay $10 more a year than their Yale counterparts...
...have had the benefit of massive, year-long study. The energy program is the pulling together of the various recommendations that generated out of that study. In addition, we find that the voluntary program has not been as successful as it should be. Although for the first nine or ten months of this year we were using energy-either energy as a whole or imports-at a rate of about 5.4% less than '73, in the last several months it has gone about 5% ahead of a year ago. A year ago we were importing about 6 million barrels...
COOPERATING ON OIL. During a meeting in Martinique, Ford and French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing reached an agreement that should end a debilitating, year-long sparring match between Washington and Paris over a vital matter: how to deal with the OPEC (Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries) cartel responsible for the fourfold rise in oil prices that has so shaken the industrial economies. The U.S. has maintained that the consuming countries must form a united front to deal effectively with the OPEC cartel. Unhappy with this implied strategy of confrontation, the French have urged tripartite negotiations...
...that era may well be ending. From his studies of weather history, British Climatologist Hubert H. Lamb concludes that climate runs in roughly 200-year-long cycles, and that the earth is now entering one of its chilly phases. Perhaps the gloomiest of the weather prophets, Bryson speculates that the earth may be reverting to a frigid interlude comparable to what some scientists call the "little ice age" that cooled Europe from the 16th through 19th centuries. During those years Greenland's once lush fields vanished, England's productive vineyards withered, and agricultural disasters like Ireland...